Security Architect
in Scottsdaleat PayPal

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Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 254 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

The PayPal Security Architecture, Engineering and Operations organization is looking for an exceptionally talented and highly motivated Security Architect. In this role, you will be a key part of turning our multi-year security strategy into reality. You will partner directly with our business and technology stakeholders, collaborating to translate business objectives into architectural designs and approved patterns for PayPal’s applications and infrastructure. This position can be in Austin, TX., Scottsdale, AZ, San Jose, CA or remote.

Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 250 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

The Security Architecture team's purpose is to ensure all data platforms, products and security tools conform to PayPal security standards. Our goal is to develop standards that will provide the highest levels of protection to our customers' data and ensure safety and trust across the enterprise. To achieve that we work with engineers across the entire PayPal platform to:

As a security architect, you will be directly responsible for building overarching architectural strategies for major security controls, such as activity logging, hardening, configuration management, password management, access management, secure data movement and more. Your task will be to deliver high level designs and approved architectural patterns for business activities. Your designs will deliver critical guidance for the planning process and provide teams a clear direction for implementation of their security controls.

Qualifications

You are an excellent collaborator. This role requires working across teams to build consensus on the final design. You are open to ideas while also guiding teams to a conclusive architectural strategy.

You have strong technical experience coupled with demonstrated experience in secure infrastructure or application designs. You are able to define and discuss technical strategies, potential issues, and effectiveness from the infrastructure level up to the interactions between software components and software behavior.

You love drawing boxes on the white board. A cliché, but realistically most of your time will be spent working through strategic options and challenges with multiple teams and understanding the big picture. If you are excited by having a marker in your hand and whiteboarding potential designs, this job could be right for you.

You are comfortable with presentations. You will build trust and a sense of “we have a plan” by documenting and presenting architectural designs at various times to various audiences.

Experience with Public Cloud implementations and Zero Trust environments an advantage

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of us having the chance to meet you. Please don't hesitate to apply.

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.